Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate reader friendly type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.

This edition of Frankenstein includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Keith Neilson.

When obsessed university student Victor Frankenstein finds the secret of animating dead flesh, he tries to create the first of a master race, stitching rotting corpses into a superhuman giant. Then the ghastly thing opens its hideous, soulless eyes and Frankenstein flees into the night, shrieking with horror--

Leaving a being who wants love and finds hate, wants friends and finds enemies, wants another and finds no one. Frankenstein is its father, mother, maker and living god, and Frankenstein has abandonded his own monster to a living hell of unutterable isolation. But now, unstoppable, the creature means to get revenge for having been born--

Not by killing its creator...but by destroying everything holds dear, and everyone Frankenstein loves...

Reviewed by jamiereadthis on

3 of 5 stars

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This came two-for-one with Dracula, and after Dracula, couldn't hold a candle. Probably all because of this: with the former, I was familiar with the story and was completely surprised, whereas with Frankenstein, I was familiar with the story and read exactly that. Still, it's a heck of a story, and one good to finally read for myself.

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